TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melchor,Fernanda
AU  - Hughes,Sophie
TI  - Hurricane Season
SN  - 9780811230735
AV  - PQ7298.423.E3795 T4613 2020
U1  - 863/.7 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New Directions Publishing Corporation
KW  - Mythology
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Violence
KW  - Villages
KW  - Superstition
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Dystopian fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - tlcgt
N1  - "Originally published in Spanish as Temporada de huracanes"--Title page verso; new book 2024 summer
N2  - "The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portraitof a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolaño's 2666 or Faulkner's greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence-real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it's a worldthat becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it"--
ER  -